Quotes from Zoe Quinn

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn't find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.

The majority of my work in games, outside of 'Depression Quest,' has been experimental pushes into comedy games. I think there are a lot of intersections there.

I still love gaming and the gaming community.

I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home.

I would not have pretty much any of the good things in my life if it weren't for the Internet.

I'm a weird goofy dork.

It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we'll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers - whatever you want to call us - thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification.

I've been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.

I get apologies from Gamergaters pretty regularly saying: 'I didn't think you were a real person.'

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and we all laugh. That's generally how, just mechanically - super-distilled - comedy works.

I still strongly feel that a lot of people who participated in Gamergate, who participated in this sort of thing, are doing so because they go into it with - they'll believe the version of events that fits their world view.

The topic is too big, there's too many people who live with it, and too many moving pieces for anyone to do a definitive statement on what depression is like for everyone. 'Depression Quest's' goal was to be a basic introduction to the concept and to get the conversation started.

I have to wonder if some part of the difficulty in dealing with the repercussions of your actions on the Internet is just that we were not ever really built for being able to conceive of a global community of anything.

Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.

Everyone who has felt alienated by the games industry, both would-be players and creators, needs to rally together and support one another as we create a space for those of us who don't fit in traditional spaces.

In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I'm under.

If Gamergate had happened to somebody else, years earlier, I probably would've been on the wrong side.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

Games are awesome. Stop letting jerks hijack them.

I like the idea of using cool cyberpunk stuff to tell really stupid jokes.

I was the funny-looking one who wore a trench coat and played hacky sack with the other greasy kids.

The bigger your platform gets - it kind of feels like being Godzilla sometimes. You make a slight move and you can accidentally knock over a building. It's a tough thing to navigate.

There's an idea that, 'Oh, the more technology you have, or the more you modify your body, the less human you are.' I think that's super gross, and inaccurate, and also offensive to anybody who relies on technology to live.